John Smith
Associate Professor
Department Chair
Publications and Working Papers
My current research largely involves:
(Reality is objective, you just perceive it imperfectly)
The random thickness of indifference, with Sean Duffy (Jan 2025) Supplemental Material
An economist and a psychologist form a line: What can imperfect perception of length tell us about stochastic choice? with Sean Duffy, Theory and Decision, forthcoming Supplemental Material
Stochastic choice and imperfect perception of line lengths: What is hiding in the noise? with Sean Duffy, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2025, 106: 102787 Supplemental Material
Imperfect perception and stochastic choice in experiments, with Pablo Brañas-Garza, Elements in Behavioural and Experimental Economics, 2024, Cambridge University Press
Visual judgments of length in the economics laboratory: Are there brains in stochastic choice? with Sean Duffy and Steven Gussman (RUC ’17), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 93: 101708 Supplemental Material
Signal Detection Theory's Learning Problem, with Sean Duffy (coming soon)
On the dynamics of the responses in Frydman and Jin (2022): Nullius in verba,with Johanna Hertel (Jan 2025) Supplemental Material
On Bayesian integration in sensorimotor learning: Another look at Kording and Wolpert (2004), with Sean Duffy, Johanna Hertel, Deniz Igan, and Marcelo Pinheiro, Cortex, 2022, 153: 87-96 Supplemental Material Stage 1 IPA on OSF
Central tendency bias in belief elicitation, with Paolo Crosetto, Antonio Filippin, and Peter Katuščák, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2020, 78: 102273 Supplemental Material
On the Category Adjustment Model: Another look at Huttenlocher, Hedges, and Vevea (2000), with Sean Duffy, Mind and Society, 2020, 19: 163-193 Supplemental Material
Omitted-variable bias and other matters in the defense of the category adjustment model: A comment on Crawford (2019), with Sean Duffy, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2020, 85: 101501 Supplemental Material
Category effects on stimulus estimation: Shifting and skewed frequency distributions-A reexamination, with Sean Duffy, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2018, 25(5): 1740-1750 Supplemental Material Psychonomic Blog
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